THE REVENANT ARCHIVES
Presented by: Kristen Gallerneaux, Chief Archivist
On view: Galleries 1, 2, 3, and 5
The Revenant Archives is an institution concerned with the visual and material culture of the paranormal. Consisting of artifacts, documents, ephemera, works on paper, and reconstructions, it uses folkloristic, parapsychological, and scientific means to offer new interpretations of ambiguous situations and to investigate the conflicts and byproducts of belief in society.
Through a fusion of historical methodologies and contemporary art practices, the Archive attempts to neutrally explore the blurring of boundaries between past and present, truth and fiction, and physical and spiritual reality. As Chief Archivist, Kristen Gallerneaux has presented a number of traveling exhibits, public lectures, and maintains the holdings of the physical archive space.
Kristen Gallerneaux was raised in a Spiritualist household near Paincourt, Ontario - a French Canadian village named after its 18th Century bread shortage. Upon relocation to Detroit in 2006, she began her work with the Revenant Archives, a project dedicated to the exploration and history of the supernatural.
After completing an MFA in Printmaking at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI, Kristen began her tenure as a MA Folklore student at the University of Oregon in 2009. Her current areas of research include: paranormal societies, idiosyncratic museums, cultural processes that emerge out of urban decay, and "visual legendry." She believes these explorations will be a lifelong project.
REGIONALISM: NEW ART BY NORTH AMERICAN PRINTMAKERS
Curated by: Clare Fox, Kristen Gallerneaux, JenClare Gawaran, Drew Iwaniw, Gualberto Orozco, and Bernard Brooks
On view: Main Gallery
Regionalism is an exhibition of works on paper by contemporary North American printmakers that will attempt to provide the viewer with a necessarily limited overview of new, experimental printmaking and related techniques as practiced from region to region throughout our continent. This international show will feature work by a diverse group of artists from New York, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Louisiana, Texas, California, Oregon, Washington, Canada, Mexico, and more.
CLAUDIA PATTON ACRYLIC ON CANVAS
On view: Member's Gallery through April.
Patton notes that, "Color and sound, rhythm and pattern are a non-verbal language. I paint with acrylic on canvas while listening to music. The flow and rhythm of the music (a great variety of artists and musical styles) creates an ideal space for me to move outside of judgment into inspired free flow. I wish to communicate the experience of pure joy, which is at the core of each piece of art I create."
On view: Members' Gallery.
